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What is Anti-Theft? Anti-Theft helps users find and retrieve their missing laptops.
What do you get with ESET Anti-Theft? Location Tracking Find the location of the missing laptop Watch Foreign Activity View desktop snapshots and webcam photos One-Way Messaging Send a message that will appear on the background of your missing laptop Anti-Theft Diagnostics Check-up on key system settings to keep the ESET Anti- Theft system working at its best.
Three steps for ESET Anti-Theft to work properly Install ESET Smart Security on your laptop and activate it. ESET Anti-Theft comes standard as a part of ESET Smart Security along with other security features such as antivirus, antispam, personal firewall and parental control. Enable Anti-Theft. The installation of ESET Smart Security on your laptop is paired with ESET Anti- Theft web interface at my.eset.com. Under normal circumstances, you see your device marked as OK. Create a new ESET account or sign in with existing one. In case your laptop goes missing, ESET Anti-Theft at my.eset.com becomes your single point of contact with it. When you suspect theft, sign in to activate the automatic device tracking to increase the chances of getting it back.
➊ https://my.eset.com ➋ How does ESET Anti-Theft work? When you have lost your device, mark it as missing. This will automatically initiate automatic actions, such as taking camera pictures and location tracking. One-way Messaging lets you contact the finder with a customized message that will appear on the missing device s screen. I have lost my laptop, what should I do? ➌ ➊ Go to my.eset.com and log in using your credentials ➋ Select your missing device ➌ Click Status and select My computer is missing to activate automatic monitoring
phantom account settings What happens when I mark a device as missing? ESET Anti-Theft will automatically connect with the missing device when it goes online and perform the following actions: ➊ ➊ Reboot the device, hide your user accounts and log into the Phantom Account (see next page) ➋ Obtain snapshots of the missing device s screen ➌ Gather webcam pictures ➋ ➌
What is the Phantom Account? The purpose of the Phantom Account is to protect your real user accounts. In the Anti-Theft setup, you are prompted to password-protect all your accounts. On the other hand, the Phantom Account requires no password, and therefore is easily accessible for the finder of your device. The Phantom Account: Is automatically opened when the missing laptop is turned on (while your actual accounts are hidden) Protects your personal data Collects data on the device location, webcam pictures and screen snapshots Sends the data to my.eset.com
your missing laptop,s desktop How does ESET Anti- Theft know where my laptop is? The laptop s location is determined by Wi-Fi networks in range (similar to your cell phone location that can be determined by the transmitter it connects to). It works as follows: ESET Anti-Theft on your laptop collects information about all the networks in range. The data is then sent to ESET servers and, with the help of our worldwide Wi-Fi database, your laptop s location appears on the map. How is it possible to send a message to my laptop? As mentioned above, ESET Smart Security on your laptop is paired with ESET Anti-Theft web interface at my.eset.com. If you send a One-Way Message to the laptop (that is connected to the internet), this message will be displayed as a background. This feature is not automatic you have to type in the message text and send it via my.eset. com. You can make your message even more convincing by setting any of the gathered webcam pictures or desktop snapshots as a background. (see left)
What if my laptop is not missing anymore? Simply click I recovered my device at my.eset.com and all automatic actions will be stopped including One-Way Messaging.
Start Getting Protected ESET Anti-Theft comes standard with our all-in-one security of ESET Smart Security 6. Other features include an antivirus and antispyware, parental control, device control to prevent infection via USBs and DVDs, and antispam. Visit www.eset.com and download the 30-day trial version of ESET Smart Security 6 for free! Copyright 1992 2012 ESET, spol. s r. o. ESET, logo ESET, NOD32, ThreatSense, ThreatSense. Net and/or other mentioned products of ESET, spol. s r. o., are registered trademarks of ESET, spol. s r. o. Other here mentioned companies or products might be registered trademarks of their proprietors. Produced according to quality standards of ISO 9001:2000. www.eset.com